The point is that the rise/fall time of leds is short enough that in about 36% of the devices they tested, the actual bit pattern was readable in the light. Though it looks like it just lights up on activity, it's actually blinking very rapidly. I'll bet you didn't know that flourescent lights are actually blinking very rapidly. That's why 60Hz (in the US) is a bad refresh rate in most offices. I would guess that the devices that can't be read over the activity lights have a data rate fast enough to be lost in the rise/fall of the LEDS, either by the data rate being fast, or the rise/fall slow, which could be accomplished with a bit of capacitance across the LED.
"Trying to form a molcule from an anti-element and a normal element would probably not work very well, because elements combine into molecules through sharing electrons to fill the outermost electron shells of the atoms. Even if a positron could temporarily serve to fill an electron shell, eventually it's going to meet up with an electron from the normal atom, they both go away, and the bond between the two atoms breaks down."
Actually, that would be an instant annihilation. the positron and electron would, in filling the 1s orbital, become one item filling the probability space of the orbital. There's no running into each other. They're both everywhere in the orbital. Obviously, this only sort of gets to happen, as they'd both disappear as a big old photon, leaving the nuclei they shielded unshielded and close together. POP!
Also, this would happen in preference to homogenous combinations, as the negative outer charge of the matter would be closer to the positive outer charge on the antimatter than to the negative nucleus of the antimatter (and vice versa)... a spherical vanderwalls force. Even more pronounced in diatomic H2 interacting with diatomic aH2, due to the uneven distribution of the charge around the molecule.
If a population gets extremely small, it becomes unstable, and is likely to go extinct. When the population density is high, holes get filled in by colonization. When the population is low, clusters tend to dissipate. The tsetse has fast gestation, so it would be tough, but i picture hitting the population with a new batch of sterile males just around maturity time for all those born around the first attack. The few females left would be unlikely to find fertile males.
Worry about mutation: most mutations are deleterious, and beneficial ones are subtle changes that give offspring an advantage in competition for reproduction (food, water, shelter, survival, getting dates, getting their children succeed in the same). It's unlikely that a mutation in a sex cell in a single male, who made it through the radiation fertile but mutated and reproduced, would give his offspring an advantage over the world at large, nor even over other tsetses. Release 1/10**9 males is fertile, 1/10**9 mutations is beneficial. release 10**9 flies, and you're releasing 1/1**9 beneficial mutations. I like those odds.
To me, the only beneficial mutation would be the mutation in the sub-saharan biome involving the loss of that speces. Maybe we can take out the anopheles mosquito next.
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same goes for Radio Shack. It's actually a good place to work for, but if you're naturally a geek, you're going to develop the skills that make it hard to do your job but make the customers love you.
I got fired at the start of 2000 and got picked up through Dice, got fired again in 2000 and got picked up through Dice for some temp work that tided me over until i met the people i work with now after missing my flight back from an interview that i got through Dice. I still get emails and phone calls from my Dice and Monster listings from 2 years of skill development back. Both of those stretches of unemployment were surprisingly uplifting. I got to where i'd bring up the money and travel issues early in the call, and decline to finish the interview if it didn't suit me. Of course, that was just before things got tough.... Anyway, concentrate on the things you do well that people need done. I don't care how proud you are of your blinkenlights project or mp3 streamer. Talk about the shell script you slapped together to make two disparate systems work together. Tell about the dialup firewall you built for a little podunk company that let them stop fighting over the dialup line. If you got fired, explain why. If the reasons make you a bad fit for them, you need to stop wasting both their time and yours. Sometimes, the reason you got fired may make you more attractive. The two firings i mention were for 1) being too technical, and 2)not considering the political implications of technical facts. Now I get to work for a company that needs and respects that technical expertise and wants to know the truth, whatever it is. Put me down in the "Likes his job" category.
"The methodical sons of a presbyterian minister"
Wrong. Milton was a minister of the "Church of the United Brethren in Christ", or what is now usually just called the "Church of the Brethren". They kind of remind me of Mennonites.
The branch coming down to me (His father (Dan) was my great-great-great-great grandpa) were mostly Quakers.
I helped set up the replica at the Wilbur Wright birthplace museum near Millville, Indiana USA.
We bought it from a guy in Illinois, name Buford Gross, who had built it to fly, though he chickened out and sold it to a museum, rather than risk damaging it. He built it with a synthetic fiber (dacron, i think) covering instead of cotton, because the FAA wouldn't let him fly it otherwise.
I just checked with a member of the museum board (my dad), and he informs me that Buford had added the 1905 flyer control enhancement (steerable rudder) as well. I'd just assumed that was accurate. No wonder a 1903 flyer is almost uncontrollable!
"It has to be the equator - the other end has to be in geosynchronous orbit."
That's only true of a ballistic orbit. We're talking about a mechanically tethered orbit.
If you put it at a higher latitude, it'll have farther to go to get the center of mass past (PAST, NOT AT) geosync orbit, and the center of gravity of the whole earth-tether system will be offset from the line of the tether, so it will have lateral force on it... it'll bow a bit, is all. If i'm not mistaken, that should give some level of gravity all the way out, even at geosync. That might be cpositive, if the carriage can rotate to keep the passengers feet "down", and minimize space sickness.
This would run away for the same reason Ice9 couldn't happen - Thermodynamics. Greasing a slide won't let you slide UP, and a catalyst won't reverse entropy.
If you dumped a ton of this catalyst into the ocean, it would be diluted into the depths where there's no sunlight to drive the reaction. If it would float and self-segregate, it would cool the surface and bring rain. It would also surely degrade over time.
When this was brought up a few weeks ago, it was noted that the project was to be used with orbital mirrors to focus the light on the reactor vessel, anchored south of Okinawa, so it looks lke it requires high intensity, maybe even in a high-pressure water vapor environment?
That's what you'd need to do a teraton blast in TNT (by definition). We've got bombs in the megatons - what, maybe 5 megatons?
200,000 of those together would generate a teraton blast.
Unless we find an "antimatter mine", antimatter is a storage medium, NOT an energy source.
I don't have the numbers, but i'm guessing we'd have to build an elliptical Dyson sphere, polished on the inside, orbiting so as to hold the sun at one focus, collecting the energy at the other one.
For this purpose, though, if we can get the conversion efficiency up to where the weight advantage beats the conversion loss, we might have something. We'd still have to take along some reaction mass, though.
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The point is that the rise/fall time of leds is short enough that in about 36% of the devices they tested, the actual bit pattern was readable in the light. Though it looks like it just lights up on activity, it's actually blinking very rapidly. I'll bet you didn't know that flourescent lights are actually blinking very rapidly. That's why 60Hz (in the US) is a bad refresh rate in most offices.
I would guess that the devices that can't be read over the activity lights have a data rate fast enough to be lost in the rise/fall of the LEDS, either by the data rate being fast, or the rise/fall slow, which could be accomplished with a bit of capacitance across the LED.
But what about those who are both handicapped AND intelligent? Is "Microsoft Active Accessibility" open source or something?
"Trying to form a molcule from an anti-element and a normal element would probably not work very well, because elements combine into molecules through sharing electrons to fill the outermost electron shells of the atoms. Even if a positron could temporarily serve to fill an electron shell, eventually it's going to meet up with an electron from the normal atom, they both go away, and the bond between the two atoms breaks down."
Actually, that would be an instant annihilation. the positron and electron would, in filling the 1s orbital, become one item filling the probability space of the orbital. There's no running into each other. They're both everywhere in the orbital. Obviously, this only sort of gets to happen, as they'd both disappear as a big old photon, leaving the nuclei they shielded unshielded and close together. POP!
Also, this would happen in preference to homogenous combinations, as the negative outer charge of the matter would be closer to the positive outer charge on the antimatter than to the negative nucleus of the antimatter (and vice versa)... a spherical vanderwalls force.
Even more pronounced in diatomic H2 interacting with diatomic aH2, due to the uneven distribution of the charge around the molecule.
If a population gets extremely small, it becomes unstable, and is likely to go extinct. When the population density is high, holes get filled in by colonization. When the population is low, clusters tend to dissipate. The tsetse has fast gestation, so it would be tough, but i picture hitting the population with a new batch of sterile males just around maturity time for all those born around the first attack. The few females left would be unlikely to find fertile males.
Worry about mutation: most mutations are deleterious, and beneficial ones are subtle changes that give offspring an advantage in competition for reproduction (food, water, shelter, survival, getting dates, getting their children succeed in the same). It's unlikely that a mutation in a sex cell in a single male, who made it through the radiation fertile but mutated and reproduced, would give his offspring an advantage over the world at large, nor even over other tsetses.
Release 1/10**9 males is fertile, 1/10**9 mutations is beneficial. release 10**9 flies, and you're releasing 1/1**9 beneficial mutations. I like those odds.
To me, the only beneficial mutation would be the mutation in the sub-saharan biome involving the loss of that speces. Maybe we can take out the anopheles mosquito next.
same goes for Radio Shack. It's actually a good place to work for, but if you're naturally a geek, you're going to develop the skills that make it hard to do your job but make the customers love you.
I got fired at the start of 2000 and got picked up through Dice, got fired again in 2000 and got picked up through Dice for some temp work that tided me over until i met the people i work with now after missing my flight back from an interview that i got through Dice. I still get emails and phone calls from my Dice and Monster listings from 2 years of skill development back. Both of those stretches of unemployment were surprisingly uplifting. I got to where i'd bring up the money and travel issues early in the call, and decline to finish the interview if it didn't suit me. Of course, that was just before things got tough.... Anyway, concentrate on the things you do well that people need done. I don't care how proud you are of your blinkenlights project or mp3 streamer.
Talk about the shell script you slapped together to make two disparate systems work together.
Tell about the dialup firewall you built for a little podunk company that let them stop fighting over the dialup line.
If you got fired, explain why. If the reasons make you a bad fit for them, you need to stop wasting both their time and yours. Sometimes, the reason you got fired may make you more attractive. The two firings i mention were for
1) being too technical, and
2)not considering the political implications of technical facts.
Now I get to work for a company that needs and respects that technical expertise and wants to know the truth, whatever it is. Put me down in the "Likes his job" category.
"The methodical sons of a presbyterian minister"
Wrong. Milton was a minister of the "Church of the United Brethren in Christ", or what is now usually just called the "Church of the Brethren". They kind of remind me of Mennonites.
The branch coming down to me (His father (Dan) was my great-great-great-great grandpa) were mostly Quakers.
I helped set up the replica at the Wilbur Wright birthplace museum near Millville, Indiana USA.
We bought it from a guy in Illinois, name Buford Gross, who had built it to fly, though he chickened out and sold it to a museum, rather than risk damaging it. He built it with a synthetic fiber (dacron, i think) covering instead of cotton, because the FAA wouldn't let him fly it otherwise.
I just checked with a member of the museum board (my dad), and he informs me that Buford had added the 1905 flyer control enhancement (steerable rudder) as well. I'd just assumed that was accurate. No wonder a 1903 flyer is almost uncontrollable!
"It has to be the equator - the other end has to be in geosynchronous orbit."
That's only true of a ballistic orbit. We're talking about a mechanically tethered orbit.
If you put it at a higher latitude, it'll have farther to go to get the center of mass past (PAST, NOT AT) geosync orbit, and the center of gravity of the whole earth-tether system will be offset from the line of the tether, so it will have lateral force on it... it'll bow a bit, is all. If i'm not mistaken, that should give some level of gravity all the way out, even at geosync. That might be cpositive, if the carriage can rotate to keep the passengers feet "down", and minimize space sickness.
This would run away for the same reason Ice9 couldn't happen - Thermodynamics. Greasing a slide won't let you slide UP, and a catalyst won't reverse entropy.
If you dumped a ton of this catalyst into the ocean, it would be diluted into the depths where there's no sunlight to drive the reaction. If it would float and self-segregate, it would cool the surface and bring rain. It would also surely degrade over time.
When this was brought up a few weeks ago, it was noted that the project was to be used with orbital mirrors to focus the light on the reactor vessel, anchored south of Okinawa, so it looks lke it requires high intensity, maybe even in a high-pressure water vapor environment?
That's what you'd need to do a teraton blast in TNT (by definition). We've got bombs in the megatons - what, maybe 5 megatons?
200,000 of those together would generate a teraton blast.
Unless we find an "antimatter mine", antimatter is a storage medium, NOT an energy source.
I don't have the numbers, but i'm guessing we'd have to build an elliptical Dyson sphere, polished on the inside, orbiting so as to hold the sun at one focus, collecting the energy at the other one.
For this purpose, though, if we can get the conversion efficiency up to where the weight advantage beats the conversion loss, we might have something. We'd still have to take along some reaction mass, though.